| | 1066 - Edward the Confessor, pre-Norman conquest English king (b. ca. 1004) (disputed) |
| | 1248 - King Sancho II of Portugal (b. 1207) |
| | 1564 - Hosokawa Ujitsuna, Japanese military commander (b. 1514) |
| | 1584 - Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter and drawer (b. 1539) |
| | 1695 - François Henri de Montmorency-Bouteville, duc de Luxembourg, French general (b. 1628) |
| | 1752 - Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician (b. 1704) |
| | 1761 - Stephen Hales, English physiologist (b. 1677) |
| | 1773 - Anton Losenko, Russian painter (b. 1737) |
| | 1782 - Ange-Jacques Gabriel, French architect (b. 1698) |
| | 1804 - Charlotte Lennox, English author and poet (bc. 1730) |
| | 1821 - Elizabeth Ann Seton, American saint (b. 1774) |
| | 1825 - King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies (b. 1751) |
| | 1877 - Cornelius Vanderbilt, American entrepreneur (b. 1794) |
| | 1883 - Antoine Eugène Alfred Chanzy, French general (b. 1823) |
| | 1896 - Joseph Hubert Reinkens, German Old Catholic bishop (b. 1821) |
| | 1903 - Gulstan Ropert, Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1839) |
| | 1919 - Georg von Hertling, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1843) |
| | 1931 - Art Acord, American actor (b. 1890) |
| | 1941 - Henri Bergson, French philosopher, Nobel laureate (b. 1859) |
| | 1960 - Albert Camus, Algerian-born French philosopher and writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1913) |
| | 1961 - Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1887) |
| | 1962 - Hans Lammers, German SS officer (b. 1879) |
| | 1965 - T. S. Eliot, American-born writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1888) |
| | 1967 - Donald Campbell, British motorboat racer (b. 1921) |
| | 1969 - Violet and Daisy Hilton, English conjoined twin actresses (b. 1908) |
| | 1970 - Jean-Étienne Valluy, French general (b. 1899) |
| | 1971 - Arthur Ford, American clairaudient {b. 1896) |
| | 1985 - Brian Horrocks, British general (b. 1895) |
| | 1986 - Christopher Isherwood, English writer (b. 1904) |
| | 1986 - Phil Lynott, Irish musician (Thin Lizzy) (b. 1949) |
| | 1990 - Doc Edgerton, American electrical engineer (b. 1903) |
| | 1998 - Mae Questel, American actress (b. 1908) |
| | 1999 - Iron Eyes Cody, American actor (b. 1904) |
| | 2003 - Conrad Hall, American cinematographer (b. 1927) |
| | 2003 - Yfrah Neaman, Lebanese-born violinist (b. 1923) |
| | 2003 - Sabine Ulibarri, Mexican American writer (b. 1919) |
| | 2004 - Joan Aiken, English author (b. 1924) |
| | 2004 - Brian Gibson, English film director (b. 1944) |
| | 2004 - Jake Hess, American singer (b. 1927) |
| | 2004 - Jeff Nuttall, English writer (b. 1933) |
| | 2004 - John Toland, American historian (b. 1912) |
| | 2005 - Humphrey Carpenter, English author (b. 1946) |
| | 2005 - Ali al-Haidri, Iraqi governor of Baghdad (assassinated) |
| | 2005 - Frank Harary, American mathematician (b. 1921) |
| | 2005 - Robert Heilbroner, American economist (b. 1919) |
| | 2005 - Bud Poile, Canadian hockey player (b. 1924) |
| | 2005 - Alton Tobey, American artist (b. 1914) |
| | 2006 - Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Dubai (b. 1946) |